Overview of Semiconductor Industry Development

We all know that chips are used practically everything that we

use at, in our homes or outside. अगर घर में हम देखें refrigerator है,

TV है, light है, सबमें semiconductor chips की जरूरत होती

है। घर से बाहर निकले तो scooty है, motorcycle है, car

है, train है, aeroplane है, अपने जो laptop, computer

है या फिर mobile phone है, हर चीज में use होती है semiconductor

chips। Semiconductor एक foundational industry है। We never had a

semiconductor industry in our country.

Even though attempts were made since 1960s, finally we have

been successful in getting the semiconductor industry established in our

country.

इसकी value chain इस तरह से होती है।

Silica rich sand होती है। इस sand से बनता है ingot.

Ingot is like एक cylindrical

solid shape है, वैसा ही एक रहता है ingot.

इस ingot को जब slice करते हैं तो इसके wafers बनते हैं। Bare

wafers जब बनते हैं, इस bare wafer के ऊपर

fabrication करना होता है। What we see this is, this is a

fabricated wafer.

Fabricated wafer means the entire circuit has

been fabricated, etched on this wafer.

इसकी complexity को समझना है हमें। Um,

imagine writing your name on your fingernail.

Imagine now writing the names of all your classmates who

have been with you on this same fingernail. Would it be more complex?

Yes, it would be more complex. Now imagine writing all your

textbooks of class ten

on this small fingernail.

That would require extremely fine work, which

normally is not possible to do by human beings.

We require very special machines to do that.

That is the level of precision which is required to be done

while fabricating the

chips. Then there are multiple layers of the

chip in this wafer itself. Thickness of this wafer

is like you can see the tip of the, uh, pen.

It's, it's so thin, and still it's like 40,

50

layers, 40, 50 storey building kind of construction

fabrication done in this wafer.

उसके बाद में इस wafer के अंदर से individual chips

को निकाला जाता है। That has to be packaged.

It's called ATMP process. Once ATMP process is

done, then the chip becomes something like this.

These are finally chips. They go into a finished

product. तो अगर आप इसका complete value chain

देखोगे...

The complete value chain from sand, silicon ingot, bare wafer,

fabricated wafer, the chip, then it goes into different

modules. This is a module.

This is a module. This is a memory module

which will go inside a computer.

So this memory module finally goes into the finished products.

That's the whole value chain. What we are attempting today in our country is

getting this entire value chain in our country.

Mobile phone manufacturing scheme,

IT hardware की manufacturing की scheme, components की manufacturing की

scheme और semiconductor chips की manufacturing की scheme.

और semiconductor chips के साथ-साथ we are also attempting to get the entire

ecosystem in our country.

The success we have had in the recent times is

that after almost 60 years of,

uh,

not being able to get the semiconductor industry, finally, we were successful in

the last, uh, decade. And today, out of

the 12 plants which have been approved under, under the Semiconductor Mission

1.0,

um, three plants have already started

manufacturing.

What I'm showing here is

the two chips which have been commercially manufactured in our

semiconductor plants.

That's something which is very satisfying, uh, but that

is not the end goal. This is just a beginning.

That is just-- this is just a beginning.

We have to really take our semiconductor industry to a different level.

What's important is we have also been able to create a design ecosystem.

Although it's very nascent, it's very small so far, and lot more

needs to be done.

This is a chip which has been designed by one of the design

linked incentive

partner, DLI partner in our government.

What is even more heartening is the chips designed and

manufactured by students. और important

point यह है कि

केवल big cities के students की बात नहीं

है। आप देखोगे इसमें शिवपुर, Assam में,

Puducherry, students from Dhanbad designing it.

We have students from Rourkela designing it, students from Durgapur

designing it, students from Jammu, students from Calcutta,

Surat. That kind of success was possible only because we thought

of the entire semiconductor mission in a very comprehensive way.

We thought of it as an ecosystem to be developed.

We didn't say just set up a fab. No. We need to develop the

entire ecosystem. And that's where our Prime Minister also

guided us that

think 20 years. Don't think of four or five years.

Think 20 years ahead and develop the entire ecosystem.

So after the success of the SEMICON 1.0,

today we will be launching SEMICON 2.0.

The students who are interested in semiconductor industry

and those who want to know more about it, please drop your

comments below. We would like to collect all

the, um, comments, and then we will

upload a complete explainer which explains the entire semiconductor

industry. Thanks.